ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spinning In Agony on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 69
LENGTH: 2:29
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, ride through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-43 and ride through bars 44-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-13, 16-19 and 33-36, and 1 more place -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x---------------------------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-----|--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o---------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------------xxxx----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxx---|

Spinning In Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Spinning In Agony?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Spinning In Agony hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spinning In Agony?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED